Mather showed me the paragraph in the _Evening Standard_.

And I am curious as to whether Abou Fatma returned to Berber and recovered them.

But since you have never come across him, it follows that he was not the man." Captain Willoughby began to feel sorry that he had been in such haste to deny all acquaintance with Abou Fatma of the Kabbabish tribe.
"No; it was not Abou Fatma," he said, with an awkward sort of hesitation.

He dreaded the next question which Durrance would put to him.

He filled his pipe, pondering what answer he should make to it.